commentUSGBC Adds New Members to its Research Committee
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced it has added six members to its research committee, established in January 2006.
The new members joined the Core Research Committee this summer: Gail Brager, professor and associate director of the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California, Berkeley; Drury Crawley, AIA, technology development manager at the U.S. Department of Energy; John Fernandez, AIA, associate professor of building technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Judith Heerwagen, of J. H. Heerwagen and Associates; Michael Holtz, FAIA, president of Architectural Energy Corporation; and Peter Morris, principal of Davis Langdon.
The Executive Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) board of directors approved the charter of a Research Committee in January 2006 and appointed its initial five members. The committee will be a core organizational committee of the Council (as opposed to being a committee for the council’s LEED Rating System) that focuses on one of the USGBC’s six key goals in its 2004 Strategic Plan: “The USGBC will be both a resource for existing knowledge about the built environment and a driver of relevant research.”
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The initial five members named to the Research Committee were Richard Haut, of the Houston Advanced Research Center; Bruce Hunn, of ASHRAE; Vivian Loftness, FAIA, of Carnegie Mellon University; Steve Selkowitz, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen, Inc.
“The formal creation of the Research Committee is long overdue and could be one of the most important contributions the USGBC makes to the complete adoption of green building design strategies throughout the built environment,” said Rick Fedrizzi, founding chairman and CEO of the USGBC. Fedrizzi said he was particularly excited about the relationship between buildings and human health and productivity—and the importance of research in advancing our understanding of these issues. “We are just now scratching the surface in learning how these structures—commercial and residential—really affect us as human beings,” he added.
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